Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 71

The trees on its banks stretched their long leafy branches across the water towards each other, and where the growth prevented them from meeting naturally, the roots had torn themselves away from the ground, so that the branches might mingle their foliage as they hung over the water.

Who acts: trees, growth, branches · What happens: stretch, prevent, meet, tear, mingle, hang · To what, where: long leafy branches, water, branches, roots, foliage

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, growth, branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretched	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 banks	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 banks	nmod:poss
5	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trees	nmod
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 branches	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branches	amod
9	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branches	amod
10	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretched	obj
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretched	obl
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 stretched	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 torn	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 torn	cc
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 prevented	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 growth	det
21	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prevented	nsubj
22	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 torn	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 prevented	obj
24	from	from	SCONJ	_	25 meeting	mark
25	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 prevented	advcl
26	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	25 meeting	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prevented	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roots	det
29	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 torn	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 torn	aux
31	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stretched	conj
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 torn	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 torn	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 away	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 mingle	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	43 mingle	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 mingle	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 branches	det
41	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 mingle	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 mingle	aux
43	mingle	mingle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stretched	conj
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 foliage	nmod:poss
45	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mingle	obj
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 hung	mark
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hung	nsubj
48	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 mingle	advcl
49	over	over	ADP	_	51 water	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 water	det
51	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hung	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	the trees on river's banks	feet's long leafy branches	the water	towards each	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient towards each=Recipient
2	prevent	past	the growth	branches = branch			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme
3	meet	gerund	the growth not said here			naturally property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tear	past · perfect · passive		the roots		away property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient themselves=Result
5	mingle	might	the branches	feet's foliage			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foliage=Patient
6	hang	past	branches = branch		the water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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